Product Manager, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton • Washington, DC

1d • $86,800 - $198,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Booz Allen is seeking a startup-minded Senior Product Manager to serve as product owner and Scrum Master for GRACE, ARPA-H’s AI assistant. The role owns backlog readiness, sprint cadence, epics and acceptance criteria, delivery metrics, and day-to-day engagement with GRACE users. The Product Manager works with the GRACE product lead, who sets strategy and epic priority and makes final decisions on sprint scope, releases, and architecture reviews; engineering owns implementation. This role focuses on preparing work, keeping sprints on track, and ensuring shipped capabilities are used and work as intended.

The position supports practical enterprise AI use while helping teams understand GRACE’s capabilities and limitations within federal mission constraints, including privacy, security, safety, and responsible use. The Product Manager also contributes to product discovery, evaluation, release readiness, user support, training, and onboarding, working with engineering, design, research, agency partners, and other stakeholders.

The position is hybrid and located in Washington, DC. The projected annualized compensation range is $86,800 to $198,000.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product management or product ownership, including running Scrum ceremonies.
• Experience running a grooming process with an enforced Definition of Ready and demonstrating how it improved delivery.
• Experience with an AI or LLM product.
• Experience independently working with data, including SQL, logs, and dashboards.
• Experience writing epics, stories, and product acceptance criteria.
• Experience regularly reporting on usage, velocity, and defect metrics.
• Experience with customer-facing user training or onboarding.
• Ability to make priority decisions quickly with input from people closest to the work.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with agentic products, MCP, or multi-agent systems.
• Experience in a PM, Scrum Master, and Analyst role.
• Experience tracking delivery health metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to recovery with an engineering team.
• Experience working with UX researchers and designers in a build-measure-learn loop.

Responsibilities

• Turn prioritized epics into a ranked backlog and write user context, product acceptance criteria, and technical acceptance criteria for stories.
• Run time-boxed grooming sessions, track unresolved items, co-own readiness checks before sprint planning, and run ceremonies on a fixed schedule.
• Track velocity against capacity, carryover, meeting load, and other delivery trends; raise issues proactively.
• Coordinate stakeholders and communicate decisions when requests compete for the same sprint.
• Track weekly usage, including active users, query volume, feature adoption, and retention; write SQL, read logs, and build and maintain dashboards.
• Publish weekly updates covering usage, velocity, carryover, bug burn-down, and upcoming work, and review grooming and delivery health with engineering monthly.
• Triage bugs by severity, participate in pre-release test huddles, and use GRACE daily as users do.
• Help define quality criteria for GRACE answers and contribute test cases to product evaluations.
• Provide release sign-off when no other owner is named, and hold releases if testing, design review, or architecture review has been skipped.
• Share customer-facing support with the product lead, including intake, feedback channels, and office hours.
• Conduct discovery through interviews, usability sessions, and analysis of usage data.
• Help lead training and onboarding through live sessions, release notes, how-to guides, and onboarding for new agency partners.
• Work with design and research to turn findings into epics and measure the results of shipped work.
• Address security, compliance, and ATO considerations early, especially for external agency integrations.
• Communicate roadmap, tradeoffs, and status to technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Health, life, and disability benefits.
• Financial and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Professional development.
• Tuition assistance.
• Work-life programs.
• Dependent care.
• Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior